From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: building/using address-sanitizer-enabled emacs? Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 05:36:45 +0300 Message-ID: <83wp9scbwi.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1494211038 18258 195.159.176.226 (8 May 2017 02:37:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 02:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jim@meyering.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 08 04:37:12 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d7YXw-0004es-7R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 May 2017 04:37:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57364 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7YY1-0003Nz-Q8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 22:37:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49134) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7YXt-0003Ns-4O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 22:37:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7YXp-0000J0-VO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 22:37:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45354) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7YXp-0000Iw-Rd; Sun, 07 May 2017 22:37:05 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1129 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1d7YXo-0004uO-Tn; Sun, 07 May 2017 22:37:05 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Sun, 7 May 2017 12:54:53 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:214687 Archived-At: > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 12:54:53 -0700 > > The project to get Emacs to work without dumping has run into problems, > unfortunately. The currently-favored technical approach (see the > scratch/raeburn-startup branch) isn't fully working and apparently will slow > down Emacs startup significantly, which makes it hard to be enthusiastic about > it. Progress has been slow: no changes have been installed since April 10, and > the last message from Ken Raeburn, its principal hacker, was April 16 and began > "This is probably going to make my brain hurt" > . >From my POV, Ken's branch is just waiting a decision to be merged onto master. I'm not aware of any problems with its current state, but I have no doubt that problems will start popping once we do merge it and start using it seriously. (Any other similar solution will most probably bump into the same or very similar problems.)